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Amazon says it plans to hire 2,000 more workers in UK, including engineers, software developers, and data scientists, bringing its total headcount there to 30K (Ellen Milligan/Bloomberg)

Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: Amazon says it plans to hire 2,000 more workers in UK, including engineers, software developers, and data scientists, bringing its total headcount there to 30K  —  – New hires bring Amazon’s U.K. workforce to almost 30,000  —  Amazon.com Inc. is set to hire more than 2,000 workers in the U.K. …

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Kim Kardashian West wins $2.8 million from company that kept tagging her in Instagram posts

Kim Kardashian West has won close to $2.8 million from the fast fashion company Missguided in a lawsuit claiming that the company used her “persona and trademarks” to sell replicas of her outfits, in part by continually tagging her on Instagram. The issue of whether Missguided’s Instagram behavior violated trademark law was never actually litigated,

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Following two deadly passenger incidents in 2018, Didi Chuxing says it has removed over 300K drivers that failed to meet its standards (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Following two deadly passenger incidents in 2018, Didi Chuxing says it has removed over 300K drivers that failed to meet its standards  —  2018 was the year when Didi Chuxing, the ride-hailing company that defeated Uber in China, vowed to put safety ahead of rocket-ship growth after two deadly passenger incidents.

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Netlab researchers discover the first-ever malware strain abusing the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, named Godlua, designed to attack Linux servers (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Netlab researchers discover the first-ever malware strain abusing the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, named Godlua, designed to attack Linux servers  —  Godlua, a Linux DDoS bot, is the first-ever malware strain seen using DoH to hide its DNS traffic.  —  Security researchers from Netlab … Netlab researchers discover the first-ever

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